Police Blotter Week of 8-26-13

By Ty Swenson

08/26/2013

Technology comes through in iPhone recovery
On Aug. 15 two men were walking along the 2600 block of S.W. Thistle St. around 2:30 p.m. when they were approached by another male who asked to use one of their phones to call his aunt. One of the teens pulled out his phone, asked for the aunt’s number and turned the phone to speaker mode so the stranger could talk, but he could maintain possession. While the phone rang, the stranger turned thief grabbed it from the victim’s hand and pulled out a folding knife to ensure it became his. The groups separated and the victim returned to his mother’s house to call 911. When police arrived they tracked the phone using GPS technology and found it pinging at 16th Ave. S.W. and S.W. Roxbury. With a suspect description in hand, police responded to the intersection and found a possible match. They detained him while the victim was transported for a show up. The victim confirmed he was the thief, described unique markings on his phone, and police searched the suspect’s belongings. They found that very phone and a folding knife in his possession and the suspect was hauled off to jail.

Technology, yet again
It was 10 a.m. on Aug. 20 when a man away from Garlough Ave. S.W. home received an alert on his cell phone that motion detectors had been set off at the residence. Able to view his abode through surveillance camera feeds to his phone, the victim could see two unknown males going through his belongings. He watched one suspect look up and make eye contact with a camera, at which time they fled. The suspects made off with a video game console and other miscellaneous items, but several pictures of them were recorded by the cameras and handed off to police for continued investigation.

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